1968–69 Pakistan revolution
The movement spread across the country when later in November a group of students from Rawalpindi were heading back from Landi Kotal, and were stopped at customs checkpoints near Attock.Already, outraged citizens were protesting against a rise in the price of sugar; the death of Hameed sparked the whole of society and many workers to join.[12] The activist and writer Tariq Ali narrated the incident in the following words; Without any physical provocation the police, who were fully armed with rifles, batons, and tear-gas bombs, opened fire.On February 13, for the first time in ten years, the red flag was hauled up in Lahore, as more than 25,000 rail workers marched along the main street chanting: "Solidarity with the Chinese people: Destroy capitalism.""At a public meeting in Ichra, Lahore, Jamaat-e-Islami leader Abul A'la Mawdudi held a piece of bread in his one hand and the Holy Koran in the other.In March 1969, a group of senior military men advised Ayub to step down, fearing the eruption of a full-scale civil war in East Pakistan and the political and social anarchy in the country's west wing.[18] Two days later, Ayub highlighted the reasons for his resignation in letter to Yahya in the following words;I am left with no option but to step aside and leave it to the Defence Forces of Pakistan, which today represent the only effective and legal instrument, to take full control of the country.[19]The Police Service of Pakistan was unable to control the situation and law and order began to deteriorate in the country, especially in the East where the most serious uprising and riots were quelled in 1969.Unrest became so serious that at one point, Home and Defence Minister Vice-Admiral Rahman told the journalists that the "country was under the mob rule and that police were not strong enough to tackle the situation.Most of the "status quo parties" (such as the many Muslim League factions) and most religious outfits (except Jamiat Ulema Islam) were decimated.
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